Breakdown of Tu obtiendras de meilleurs résultats à condition de t'entraîner régulièrement.
tu
you (informal singular)
de
of / from / any (in negative sentences) / about (concerning)
s'entraîner
to work out / to train
régulièrement
regularly
le résultat
the result
meilleur
better
obtenir
to obtain
à condition de
on the condition of
Questions & Answers about Tu obtiendras de meilleurs résultats à condition de t'entraîner régulièrement.
Why do we use à condition de here instead of à condition que?
We use à condition de followed by an infinitive when the subject of both actions is the same. Here, you are getting the results and you are doing the training. If the subjects were different (for example, "I will get better results provided you train me"), you would have to use à condition que followed by the subjunctive mood.
Why is it t'entraîner and not s'entraîner if it is an infinitive?
Even when a reflexive verb is in its infinitive form, its reflexive pronoun must still agree with the person doing the action. Since the implied subject doing the training is tu, the default pronoun se changes to te, which becomes t' before the vowel in entraîner.
Why is it de meilleurs résultats instead of des meilleurs résultats?
In written and careful spoken French, the plural indefinite article des changes to de when a plural adjective is placed directly before a plural noun. Since the adjective meilleurs comes before the noun résultats, des drops its "s".
What tense is obtiendras and why does its stem look different?
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